[B-Greek] style

Michael Abernathy mabernathy at isot.com
Fri Oct 22 15:37:22 EDT 2004


Sorry, I accidentally sent this before finishing. I will start over.
Perry Stepp wrote,
 
"But isn't it possible that Ignatius, for example, is more difficult to read
because of his vocabulary rather than his sophistication?  Or that he's more
difficult to read because of a LACK of education and sophistication, rather
than because he is more sophisticated?"Certainly, the difference in vocabulary is a part of the difficulty I encountered when I first started reading authors outside of the Bible.  However, the greater difficulty came from being accustomed to the differences in sentence structure.  The authors of the New Testament often follow a more semitic pattern in writing than native Greek authors.  Of course, another problem I found was that native authors were morelikely to use ellipsis.  It took some time to get used to following the meaning when theauthor simply leaves out a part of the sentence assuming you can follow his thought.Sincerely,Michael Abernathy 


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